Pindar's writing gestures towards a public language . . . though this is regularly undermined by the comic and sardonic . . . The poetry thrives on this flexibility of tone, its declarations constantly being shifted, contested and contradicted . . . Much of the book is made up of elusive, uneasy parables. . . that hover between pessimism and hope, and the potential of language to articulate this predicament. - the Guardian It was about time for somebody to be channelling Eliot, maybe Stevens, Laforgue, and the Metaphysicals to such clashing effect: ‘bright as a seedsman’s packet’, with unexpected timbres and sonorities sabotaged by glockenspiel accents. Pindar is just right for the job - John Ashbery In this sparkling début collection Ian Pindar brilliantly fulfils Verlaine’s injunction to the poet to take eloquence and wring its neck. Emporium offers the reader a beguiling and compendious range of styles and voices, and signals the arrival of a fascinating and original poet - Mark Ford

Table of Contents:
CONTENTS Figure Study Mrs Beltinska in the Bath On the French Riviera Monsters of Philosophy A Dog One Afternoon Society of Blood Anecdote of the Car Marc Chagall: The Poet Reclining Parable Advice for Travellers Poem What is the Matter? Archaeologies Snow The King’s Evil Les Vacances de Monsieur P. Chain Letter Of Truth Suggestions for Further Reading Two Figs The Prophecies Casanova Cārvāka/Lokāyata Windows Gods of the Near Future After Birth Big Bumperton on the Sabbath Ashes Death of a Senator Birds Illustrated Evenings Parasite Joan Miró: Man and Woman in Front of a Pile of Excrement It Takes a Man Everybody’s Talking about Antonin Artaud The Wasp and the Orchid Armageddon Black Jelly Baby Kissing Dust Loon Silent Spectres The Rainy Day Murders An Accident in Soho Lost Insomnia Time Remaining Notes